I was twenty-four when I walked into the Streetlight club in Mayfair, looking for a job in a bar. I was struggling to pay my rent -- London is an expensive city. I was single, with a young son, and I needed to earn. I was also beautiful -- small and dark haired, with curved hips, white skin and pert breasts with soft rosy nipples and full pink lips.
The first time you see the Streetlight, as a young woman, you are taken aback. The Streetlight is underground, in a grand part of London. You walk down a flight of carpeted stairs, around a corner, and suddenly the sounds of the business of Mayfair are gone and you are at the reception desk of an underground bar and club. There, on the front desk, is a Russian girl of 28. She is wearing a tight black waist incher and high heels. Her large, round breasts hang proud in front of her. Her lips are painted red.
'Can I help you?'
I tried not to look at her nipples. It was really hard not to as Nadia kind of juggles her tits forwards as she speaks, as if she hopes you will take them in your hands and play with them as you chat. I like tits. I just try not to show it.
'I'm Carrie. I have an interview with Moira.'
'Through the curtain, take a seat in the bar.'
Nervously I pushed a heavy velvet curtain aside and went through, half expecting to find a room full of pumping arses and feasting girls, but my imagination was running away with me - the bar was nearly empty.
I sat in the bar, at a seat behind a table and waited. It was quiet, warm, plush. It was a place for rich men. The lightning was red, flattering. The bar area as carpeted, like the stairs, so the whole place had a velvety atmosphere. There was a girl leaning on the bar, and another walking though, on her way to something. They were both long-haired, naked to the waist, tits exposed, their bottoms barely covered by tiny miniskirts, their legs encased in fishnets and stilettos. One of them was black. She waved at me. 'Hi, I'm Stacy.' She had an Australian accent and a body like Venus. I swallowed. She looked so confident. I wasn't in that class. Should I leave now?
A girl sat beside me, suddenly, as if she'd had to make herself come in and had turned to jelly when she got here. 'Hi I'm Emily. Are you waiting to see Moira?'
'Yes. You too?'
'Yes. What is this place?'
'I thought it was just a bar job,' I said.
Emily nodded. She had blonde hair, a pretty pink mouth, a Barbie doll face. 'Me too. I work as a waitress at a restaurant along the way, but I've been dating the boss and it's gone sour. I need another job fast.'
'Oh dear,' I said. 'I need a job too. The hours are quite good for me?
'What, 9pm till 3am? It's a bit horrendous, said Emily.
'It's a lot of hours to be paid for,' I said, and my son only needs a babysitter, not a nanny. He won't even know I'm gone.'
Emily swallowed. She looked nervous. 'I'll tell you what, shall we make a pact? We'll both give it two weeks?'
We shook on it.
Moments later Moira arrived, and I started to wonder what I had let myself in for. Six nights a week, said Moira, we must show up here. We would paint our fingernails and we would shave everywhere. Everywhere, she added, pointedly. We would get our tits out, and we would chat to men who came into the club and persuade them to buy us champagne, lots of it. Then, if they liked us, they would take us through to the restaurant and dance area, where we would sit in a cubicle with them and spend the evening helping them enjoy themselves.
I swallowed, 'in the cubicle?'
'That's right,' said Moira, 'don't look at me like that. This isn't a knocking shop.'
'Oh...'
She saw my face. 'Look, she said, 'you're a big girl. The men aren't angels. They're bored. They're away from their wives. They want a nice time. But we don't want fucking in the restaurant. You keep your hands out of sight, just a little touch under the table. If Nigel, sees any funny business he'll have you in his office before you can say 'I'm a virgin.'
'Who's Nigel?'
'The manager. He will expect to fuck you I'm afraid. There's not a lot I can do about that.'
'But I...' I met Emily's gaze again. She smiled. I liked her. Nigel could fuck off, I thought. He wasn't fucking me...